On my iPod shuffle today I listened to 'Blind Ambition' by Lars Frederikson & The Bastards (21 seconds long) and it got me thinking. What other songs/intros/interludes/skits/etc are good that are less than a minute long. The only requirement to nominate tracks on here is that they cannot be longer than 59 seconds.
Boxcutter by Total Fucking Destruction: (10 sec) The Compact Disc Version 1 album has two versions of this song. The live one is better because the recorded cheering and heckling actually means the track is shorter than the original
Plus its much more overtly macho and hardcore.
Common Enemy by Napalm Death: (16 sec) All of the energetic agressive of
'You Suffer' only theres an actual point to listening to it.
Untitled by Current 93: (18 sec) Spoken word outro from Imperium;
"Once the Buddha smiled, and by the wondrous radiance of that smile were countless worlds illuminated. But there came a voice saying 'It is not real it cannot last'. And light past".Attack Of The Supervirus by Total Fucking Destruction: (20/24 sec) There are 5 versions of this 20 second song on their album Compact Disc Version 1. They start off with the same punky driving 'riff' and always end with a slight variation of a spazzy breakdown.
Blind Ambition by Lars Frederikson & The Bastards: (21 secs) Makes it point and then fucks off. What all good punk music does in essence
End Grovel, In With Stains And Omissions by Grone: (21 secs) The band realizes that they still have 21 seconds of tape left and they discuss wether or not to include it on the album.
A Voice From Catland by Current 93: (21 secs) Ambiguous poem intro read by a young boy at the start of Of Ruine... "Bounce the ball still, softly rounded on all sides. The goal is in each kits eye, the ball fixes each eye open. It rolls to each paws love, bounced home where it hides".
The Kill by Napalm Death (23 sec)
Parasites by Napalm Death: (24 sec) Napalm Death at their best. I especially like the echoing shout at the end of 'The Kill'.
Illegal Operations by S.T.U.N.: (31 sec) Very politicized punk song that has the band shouting "BOMBS" a lot.
The Stand Ins, Two by Okkervil River: (31 sec) Lovely melodic instrumental midtro that promises to the listener of beautiful things headed their way on the very conceptual album The Stand Ins. Ought to be longer.
Kill The Poseurs by Savage Death: (32 secs) Very sleazy old school death metal drumming from this Crucified In Hell tape.
Transmission by S.T.U.N: (32 sec) Distorted and powerful intro from album Evolution Of Energy with disenfrancised female spoken wordy parts; "Every action has a reaction. Withold or stunt that reaction and we don't evolve. And the tension increases in the weather, in the universe and in the people. Its as inevitable as gravity. Equality is coming to us."
Black Tigers Start Red Fires by Cutting Pink With Knives: (33 sec) Not CPWK's best but certainly a perfect example of the mad disregard for convention this band had when they active.
04/05/05 Tuesday by Fantomas: (33 sec) Just an especially small example of album Suspended Animations barmy dwarven songs. Jangled random guitar noise accompanied by strange breathing FX soon descends into a medley of cartoon bish-bash-bosh noises.
Girl Attorney by Health: (36 sec) This song is generation X. To quote that one High Contrast song - "You ask kids what they like about rock n' roll and they'll tell you the same thing. The beat the beat the beat..."
4 Better Or 4 Worse (Interlude) by The Phardcyde: (37 sec) This track always crops up on my iPod shuffle. Makes me want to make some respectful socially acceptable rap ala Will Smith.
Interlude by Jehst: (38 sec) "Well dis is a choon that da authorized authoritee banned it from da radio station, but I know dem can't ban it right ere.."
Air Raid Gtr by The Go! Team: (40 sec) The only bit of the Thunder Lightning Strike album I really liked. I suppose I ought to make an extended Belly special. Weirdly distorted glass like air sirens.
Iridescence: Peacocks Tail by Miasma & The Carousel Of Headless Horses: (40 sec) I've always been impressed with how EVERY single song on the Perils LP has as much lovecraftian spinetingling impact as the next.
Phoenix In Flames by Converge: (42 sec) Barbaric drumming and Bannon style vocals at their most inhuman and pained. Underscored by that brilliant vocal lift about 15 seconds in.
Prologue by The Receiving End Of Sirens: (43 sec) I'm not really sure why they didn't just put this at thwe start of track 1 as opposed to making it a seperate song. Still a brilliant example of digital ambient emo soundtrack goodiness.
Untitled by Burial: (46 sec) Urban ambience with a dangerous edge from the album untrue. Again as with the Okkervil River track I wish it were longer.
Intro by The Prodigy: (46 sec) From Music For A Jilted Generation. Eerie sci-fi soundscape preluding that awesome beat from Break & Enter
"So, i've decided to take my work back underground. To stop it falling into the wrong hands".
Gumbo by MF Doom: (49 sec) Barmy hip-hop improv from the metal faced villain with samples of people talking about edible food packaging.
The Darkly Splendid World by Current 93: (51 sec) Acoustic folk interlude from Of Ruine... with pleasant ladytype vocals; "King after king after king, then queen then queen then king. Dead in lines and dead in singular, they are dead they are dead. Altogether dead".
Dusk Falls Upon The Temple Of The Serpent On The Mount Of Sunrise by Nile: (51 sec) MASSIVE SONG TITLE aside this is an ace bit of fuax-pharaonic instrumentation.
Ouroboros: Phoenix Rising by Miasma & The Carousel Of Headless Horses: (52 sec) Eerie violin outro from Perils. Imagine a scene in a sleepy English village where the 'protaganist' discovers the subtle evidence of the occult. A marking in a wall, an animal skin shaped into a mask, a horn of a
unknown animal. Yes its that good.
Einar Elg by Imposter: (52 sec) I laughed for longer than the songs playtime after hearing it. Freakishly funny outro from the bands Little Hitler Illusion tape. Worth it for the mock military drumming and cosmic fart noises
Do Not Fire! by Madvillain: (53 sec) Indian souk bassy breakbeats with streetfighter samples. For those who need hip-hop with chun-li and cries of 'yogaflame!'.
Ava Eva Iva Ova Uva by Cutting Pink With Knives: (55 sec) Not only is it one of CPWK's best songs but its one of my top 50 songs ever. An outrageously extreme digital blastbeat start that finishes with what is for me at least the greatest art rock new media riffage ever. I particularly how the vocals get really nasty for literally a millisecond (exactly 25 seconds in).
Gravework by Agoraphobic Nosebleed: (56 sec) Unlike most of the other songs on this list its perfect exacly the way it is. Its so well-rounded and lowbrow that to make it any longer might of ruined it. 10/10
Reddening: Blood Of The Pelican by Miasma & The Carousel Of Headless Horses: (57 sec) I like this for precisely the same reasons I like 'Iridescence' and 'Ouroboros'. A lone harbour bell tolls and a bleak eastern accordian brings to mind a fetid mire. A misty fen where something shapeless stirs. I really to stop listening to Perils.
Harolds Dewlaps by Winnabago Deal: (58 sec) I have no idea what dewlaps are (perhaps I don't want to know) but this mini-me example of WD's brand of highspeed no-frills rock is ace.
Intro by Midnight Juggernauts: (58 sec) Like The Receiving End Of Sirens prologue I previously mentioned I can't understand why the band didn't just add it to the start of track 1. Nethertheless this intro fits perfectly with the neo-retro nu rave doctor who-
ish'-ness of the album Dystopia.
Intro by Hellhammer: (58 sec) Intro from the album Satanic Rites. Daemonical slow motion bellowing vocals and sludgy guitars.
War Game by Toxic Holocaust: (59 sec) All of this bands are short but this one is especially so. However like Agoraphobic Nosebleed and CPWK its almost always enough. Bands like this can manage to round up ace ideas, SFX and riffage into a tiny pill-popping package.
